Genius

[WilliamPitt]

Romney has been running on his business experience.

The Obama campaign now has him running away from his business experience as fast as he can.

Looks like Karl Rove isn't the only one adept at the art of turning a strength into a weakness.

Brilliant stuff.

[RagAss]

1. Chicago style....

When the bell rings kick them in the balls until they beg you to kick in their teeth !!!

[stlsaxman]

40. bwahahahah!

- "you owe me a monitor!"

that's a new one on me... thanks!

[spanone]

2. k&r....

[lunatica]

3. I've been saying that for months

Obama's campaign is the one dominating the talking points this time. Mitt just keeps eating their dust.

[madokie]

42. Obama and company aren't f**king around

and its about fucking time

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Yep, if he's been out of business since 1999, his experience means nothing.

The entire world's economy has changed since then.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Mittens' big deal has been his experience in business.

He's one of those nincompoops who think running a government is just the same as running a business. But now his business-running is starting to look a bit dodgy, so what's he got left besides a couple of years managing the Olympics? Being governor of Massachussets, during which he implemented the prototype of the Affordable Care Act (and bragged about it all day - until Obama started pushing the ACA), and during which MA was #47 in job creation.

So, Mittens, what have you got? A business you don't want to talk about. And a health care plan you now hate. And a really shitty jobs record. That leaves being an Exalted High Muckitymuck in the Mormon Church, which you also don't like to talk about, and the Olympics.

The Olympics. That's it.

Poor Mittens.

[Lifelong Protester]

8. Excellent rundown of Mitt's "accomplishments"

that he can't really run on.....

[MustBeTheBooz]

12. That about sums it up! n/t

[tridim]

14. I don't know, was he really running the Olympics?

Or was he phoning it in while secretly running Bain and collecting two paychecks?

[siligut]

16. He saved the Utah Olympics by obtaining federal money for them

As far as I know, that was his big accomplishment.

[TahitiNut]

36. At the time (2002), a RECORD amount of Federal money for the Olympics.

Rmoney likes that "free stuff" ... Our money!

[janet118]

43. Then there's this . . .

2002 Olympic Torch Bearer Uniforms Made In Burma Sweatshops

In the last few days, more than a thousand activists have e-mailed complaints to the IOC.

The IOC, however, has insisted that it bears no responsibility for the order and that all arrangements for the torch relay to Salt Lake City had been made by the local organizing committee, the SLOC.

Most of them received email replies signed in the name of the SLOC's Media relations Committee, which indicated that it thought Burma and Myanmar were two different countries.

[Dalai_1]

6. I agree

I believe there is more to be revealed!

[longship]

7. It's the rope-a-dope, again.

Obama's team has shown itself to be pretty damned adept in doing this sort of thing. The more I see this campaign, the more I realize that Rmoney has been having real trouble getting his message out.

I can't wait to see what happens after the conventions. If the Obama team keeps directing the dialog, Rmoney may be in big trouble.

Rmoney at NAACP was embarrassing. I agree he went there to play to his base, but he could have done that without going to Houston. He's screwed either way, but why the hell did he double down with the "free stuff" comment?

Are they really that clueless?

[Voice for Peace]

9. of course part of why he has trouble getting his message out

is that he has no message of his own.

He's trying to get other people's messages out, and hasn't got a clue.

[tclambert]

37. His message is, "Hey, let's do just what George W. Bush did, but more so."

Because, you know, that resulted in peace, prosperity, and jobs for everyone*.







*("everyone" understood to mean only Romney's richest friends)

[obxhead]

38. Actually I find his message to be....

I'll say whatever you want me to say, but not say anything about how I'll actually govern.

His entire platform is I'm not Obama and I love teahadists!

[Baitball Blogger]

10. +1

I also think that people are ready to believe that businessmen aren't the answers to our problems because we're all hurting from Wall Street greed.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

27. That's why Romney has to be linked to Wall Street greed

The more this is pushed the better. However, ordinary people are being fed wonderful things about Romney by the corporate media. Obama is also being blamed for the wrong doings of the GOP Congress.

[immoderate]

11. If he was a farmer, he'd run the country like a farm.

Do what you know.

--imm

[scheming daemons]

13. yep. Romney is being Bain-boated

[caseymoz]

15. Give some credit to Romney.

He's made this damn easy for Obama by getting caught with a mile-long trail paper trail in some major lying.

Rove was never served a pitch as fat as this.

[Auggie]

17. Great observation

But as I posted elsewhere yesterday, I expect Karl Rove and company haven't even begun to dig into their bag of dirty tricks.

I expect the aim will not be to try and salvage Romney's character but to attack the President as an even more heinous monster than they already have.

Remember the whisper campaign against John McCain in 2000 Republican presidential primary?

[Motown_Johnny]

21. You don't think they dug into that bag in 2008?

[Auggie]

23. Yes, I do.

But they've had four years to make up more stuff.

[oldhippydude]

22. well after all its a known fact....

the President has 2 black daughters!!!

[daligirl519]

29. True, but. . .

They really shot their wad with Obama early on. If they had anything on him, we would have seen it by now. They have nothing. It will be the same old thing. What else can they make up?

[Auggie]

31. "What else can they make up?"

Actually, I shudder at the thought.

[ErikJ]

18. US govt is nation's laws not a business. A lawyer is more appropriate than a businessman.

THe only 2 presidents that were businessmen were Hoover and Bush 2.

[Ikonoklast]

25. Jimmy Carter was a very succesful businessman.

[ErikJ]

28. Peanut farmer

Not the typicalwhite collar business man most people have in mind.

[Tx4obama]

30. I stole your subject line and used it as a tweet. Thanks :) n/t

[a2liberal]

19. K&R (n/t)

[Motown_Johnny]

20. It was always a weakness, they were just to stupid to know it.

[Peaceful Protester]

24. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz119eIuz2U

Rachel Maddow shows a 1994 Ted Kennedy commercial against Mitt Romney that never ran.

NOTE: Under Gov. Mitt Romney, Massachusetts ranked 47th in job creation.

[hifiguy]

26. Do you think that the Obama peeps just might have all the research

that Ted Kennedy's people did back in the nineties? Simply taking that and following the clues would doubtless lead to lots of interesting things. You can bet your bottom dollar Ted's people drilled down to bedrock doing their opposition research.

I also suspect that there may well be some old McCain people who are none too fond of Mittwit to this day and wouldn't mind monkeywrenching him. Let's face it, the Romneybot 2.0 isn't someone feel real warm and fuzzy about.

[NashvilleLefty]

32. Mitt is hiding something. It doesn't matter what it is.

The general public probably wouldn't understand it, anyway.

The important thing is that he is hiding something and so can't be trusted.

Romney. Can't. Be. Trusted.

[applegrove]

33. But Kerry was a war hero. Romney's record at Bain never actually meant he would create jobs. With

Swift Boat Veterans for truth they put a big lie into John Kerry's narrative. Bain actually was never in existance to create jobs or to create good jobs. That is not a lie. The two are not equivalent.

[patrice]

34. Is it Axlerod again? What is this team like? nt

[proud patriot]

35. this how we beat whitman and fiarino(sp?) in California

[kellytore]

39. If you keep your opponent

on the defense long enough, it weakens their offense. I bet Rove is amazed by the brilliance of the Obama team.

[TNLib]

41. Romney such a disaster for the GOP they would have been better off with that whacko Santorum

nt

[The Jungle 1]

44. He has done done it again

I think Obama has Clinton beat. So smart. So tough. So competitive. So lucky.
How did we get so fortunate to find Obama?
This attack is brilliant and well played. What is stunning is that many powerful folks in the Democratic party said it wouldn't work and was the wrong path.
Clearly Obama once again knew where he was going ten moves ago. I no longer question any move this smiling genius makes. I have come to understand that he always has a plan.
I would bet that Obama would agree he has gone through life consistently being underestimated and consistently used it to his advantage. Dumb like a fox.
I don't care which side you are on if you like politics for its sport then you have to love Obama's skill.
Bring on the debates.